I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
RAY BRADBURYHow working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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